Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the Blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more..
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The disastrous Blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America\'s heartland would never be the same. -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope.
This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.
Using the storm as a lens, he] captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America\'s history, and along the way delves into the freakish physics of extreme cold.
David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous Blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise.
Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the Blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school
